Portlandmaine.gov - SEO Checker

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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
100% 
Page quality
52% 
Page structure
58% 
Link structure
97% 
Server
86% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
1.13 s
File size
438.80 kB
Words
23
Media files
1
Number of links
13 internal / 1 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Portland, ME - Official Website | Official Website
There are word repetitions in the page title.
The length of the page title is perfect. (431 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
Meta description
(Critically important)
The City of Portland is the local governmental entity for Portland, Maine. Thank you for visiting our municipal website.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (721 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
No canonical link is specified.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: United States of America
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
The domain is no subdomain.
The domain length is good.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

NameValue
viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
theme-color#003b4d
descriptionThe City of Portland is the local governmental entity for Portland, Maine. Thank you for visiting our municipal website.
keywordsHome,city of portland,portland maine,city of portland maine,portlandmaine.gov,2078748300,city of portland maine phone number,contact us,city of portland government
langen
charsetUTF-8

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
There are only 23 words on this page. Use at least 250 words to provide useful information.
Some words from the page title are not used within the pages content
No paragraphs were detected.
13% of the text are stop words.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 6 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
Alt text (alternative text) is correctly used on all found images.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
There are only a few social sharing widgets on the page. Make your website popular in social networks with social sharing widgets.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

URLAlt attributeTitle
...9-77e2-4454-9222-aa138d18dcdc?cache=1800a file

Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
There is no H1 heading specified.
Headings
(Important)
There are no headings specified on the page. Headings are important for search engine optimization and help to structure your content.

Heading structure

No headings were found.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
All internal links are not using dynamic parameters.
There are 1 external links on this page.

Found links on this page

LinkAttributesAnchor text
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Skip to Main Content
https://portlandmaine.gov/IMG-ALT a file
/9/Pay-ApplyPay & Apply
/27/Your-GovernmentYour Government
/101/ServicesServices
/35/BusinessBusiness
/31/CommunityCommunity
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor News
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Text duplicate News
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Meetings
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Events
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Meetings
https://portlandmaine.gov/Anchor Text duplicate Events
https://connect.civicplus.com/...External Subdomain CivicPlus®

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://portlandmaine.gov/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
This page uses GZip for compressed data transmission.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time is slow (1.13 seconds). The response time should be less than 0.4 seconds. Slow websites are bad for search engine bots and also result in bad user experience.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (439 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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dateMon, 09 Sep 2024 18:30:17 GMT
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content-encodinggzip
varyAccept-Encoding
request-contextappId=cid-v1:cd12a649-6132-4c93-8c7b-649841af9773
served-byengage6-cms-6dcd6c586-zgl59
x-authenticatedfalse
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x-content-type-optionsnosniff
referrer-policystrict-origin-when-cross-origin
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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,856 referring domains.
This page has 74,523 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,895 different ip addresses.

Links from Wikipedia

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Robots.txt

user-agent: Baiduspider
                    Disallow: /
                    User-agent: Yandex
                    Disallow: /
                    User-agent: *
                    User-agent: Siteimprove
                    Crawl-delay: 20
                    User-agent: Siteimprovebot
                    Crawl-delay: 20
                    User-agent: Siteimprovebot-crawler
                    Crawl-delay: 20

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portlandmaine.gov
Portland, ME - Official Website | Official Website
The City of Portland is the local governmental entity for Portland, Maine. Thank you for visiting our municipal website.

Most important keywords

Following keywords were found. You can check the keyword optimization of this page for each keyword.

KeywordResultRecheck
Main58%Check
Government46%Check
Content36%Check
CivicPlus36%Check
Portland34%Check
Skip34%Check
Pay34%Check
Apply34%Check
Services34%Check
Business34%Check
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